Wednesday, October 26, 2016

I am lucky enough in my life to be able to spend some time at my children's school. Whilst spending time with students and teachers I have been able to make some lovely friendships. Which led the music teacher to give me some instruments that the school was retiring. One of which was a violin that had some broken parts. So I took my Couture Creations Anna Griffin Mixed Media to it and this is what happened.

I started this piece by first removing all the hardware ie chinrest, tail piece, bridge and strings etc from the violin. then I gave a light sand with the fine side of the Couture Creations Sanding Block.

Monday, October 10, 2016

I've been feeling a little nostalgic this week, I have no idea why or how the feelings came to bare but it has transfered into my cardmaking. This gorgeous old world card is the fruit that these feelings has bought out in me.

Pink and brown are one of my favourite colour combos so I started with a pretty pink card base at 5"x7" and a chocolate mat at 4.6" x 6.6". I aged them a little by distressing the edges with my Couture Creations non stick Scissors.

Then using the Couture Creations Craft Mat I mixed some Couture Creations Anna Griffin Mix and Match Pigment powder n brown with some alcohol and a couple of drops of dimensional magic. I mixed a spread it with my fingers to bead it slightly and then i dropped my mat over the top and pressed it down

\I then added some flowers to the left hand side of my card in matching colours.

The best thing about the Couture Creations Bulk Flowers is that they all come in white, so I can change the colours to anything I want with a bit of ink or spritz, the one above I spritzed and nice off white colour to match my colour scheme, to the centre I added some of the Oh La La Mixed sequins.

I had an old mini frame lying around that was perfect for framing these gorgeous little Oh La La Happy Lives stamps from the ---- set. They are so super cute and were just perfect to fit inside the frame. I added some strung seed beads to my flower cluster also and a hanging bead to give it some more old world character.

COUNTDOWN TO CIL

CIL 2

About Me

I am a SAHM with 2 beautiful daughters, that are fierce cheerleaders, Tayla 11yrs and Jordyn 7yrs. Married for 14yrs to a man who truely looks after me...Phil. Am extremely lucky to have a handful of TRUE friends and a wonderfully supportive family. I am a scrapper and love a bit of scraptherapy with my friends.